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Notes From Black ReadsA razor-sharp and highly intelligent debut, Black Buck brings the idea of the American Dream into a new century. It is a d...

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by he...

From the acclaimed author of The Last Samurai, Lightning Rods is "the most well-executed literary sex comedy" of our time. Described as “the most...

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD - William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memora...

First (authorized) publication (in any language) of awildly popular, anonymously written serial novel that started life as a blogduring ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at t...

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and i...

"A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to suc...

As this new edition reveals, the cultural reach of The Ticket That Exploded has expanded with the viral logic of Burroughs’s multimedia methods, ...

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeA funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of th...

What would happen if Marcus Garvey had achieved his dreams by force? Satirizing one of the most influential figures of twentieth century Black Amer...

"A writer contends with slavery's legacy, and his own link to it . . . Daring in both scope and imagination."--The New York TimesA stellar novel re...